Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.